how do floating numbers work exactly...im readin about them but i cant seem to understand there purpose...someone please help..yes im a newbie.

>how do floating numbers work exactly
There's an ebook out there that describes floating-point in detail. It's also over 40 pages of densely packed gibberish. Do you want to be more specific so that I don't have to summarize everything?

>i cant seem to understand there purpose
They're useful if you need a fractional value and complete accuracy isn't required. How is that hard to understand?

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